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By wavetrace · VS Code Marketplace · Other

Interactive VCD waveform viewer for FPGA/RTL developers

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 19, 2026

WaveTrace has 97,488 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #2402 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 3.1 out of 5 from 13 ratings.

PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.

Installs
97,488
Official API · Oct 19, 2026
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90-day growth
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Rank
#2402
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 3.08 / 5 from 13 ratings

About WaveTrace

WaveTrace

WaveTrace is an interactive waveform viewer for FPGA/RTL developers. We strive to be a fast and lightweight alternative to the big vendor tools currently avaliable. WaveTrace is optimal for small to medium sized designs.

Features

• Open VCD (value change dump) files directly inside VSCode • Signal, Bus, Linear, and Stepped render modes • Multiple display formats (Binary, Octal, Hex, ASCII, etc.) • Customizeable signal colors (with an overrideable pallette in config.json) • GPU accelerated rendering • VSCode Themeable

Licensing / Activation

WaveTrace is free to use for up to 8 unique signals. If you need more please consider purchasing a license from our website (no subscriptions, just a single payment). This helps fund further development and new features!

Configuration

For complete configuration, open your config.wavetrace.json file by clicking on the gear icon in the navigation bar and clicking the Open Settings (JSON) button.

_NOTE_ - There may be some additional undocumented settings in your configuration file. These settings are currently unimplemented and will be included in a later update

• display • display.defaultTraceStyle - Defaults for new traces being added to the window • color - RGB hex color code (ex. #00e676) • fill - Waveform fill value. Setting to 0 disables fills completely and may improve performance. • radix - Options: bin, oct, hex, unsigned, signed, ascii, utf8, float • renderer - Options: line, bus, step, linear • strokeWidth - Width of trace lines in pixels. 0.5px multiples are acceptable and may be useful in some scenarios when dealing with anti-aliasing. • display.disableGpu - Setting true disables GPU acceleration • keyboard • keyboard.addSignal - Hotkey to bring up the signal search menu • keyboard.reload - Hotkey to reload the waveform after changes have been made • keyboard.zoomAmount - Multiplier for zooming while using the keyboard shortcuts or buttons on the navigation bar • keyboard.zoomStart - Hotkey to jump to the beginning of the waveform • keyboard.zoomEnd - Hotkey to jump to the end of the waveform • keyboard.zoomFit - Hotkey to fit view zoom to length of the waveform • keyboard.zoomIn - Hotkey to zoom in (enlarge) waveform. Related: keyboard.zoomAmount • keyboard.zoomOut - Hotkey to zoom out (shrink) waveform. Related: keyboard.zoomAmount • keyboard.zoomTarget - Where to zoom to when clicking the buttons or keyboard shortcuts • Set mouse - Zoom to the location of the mouse cursor • Set center - Zoom to the center of viewable region • Set cursor - Zoom to the location of selected cursor • mouse • mouse.reverseScrolling - true reverses the direction of zooming and panning • mouse.zoomAmount - Zoom multiplier while scolling with a mouse • mouse.zoomTarget - See keyboard.zoomTarget • theme • palette - An array of RGB colors that can be used to quickly assign to traces. • window - _Not applicable to VSCode Extension_ • license - License key used to unlock full version of WaveTrace. Purchase from wavetrace.io

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • fpga
  • graph
  • json
  • VCD
  • verilog
  • vhdl
  • waveform

Where WaveTrace sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · page 121, #2 (overall #2402)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order
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Other761 listings · 39 pages · page 37, #12 (overall #732)
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Charts

Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark

Adoption over time

WaveTrace installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 97,488 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.WaveTraceInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days97,488installs97.4K97.4K97.4K97.4K97.4K97.5K97.5K97.5KJul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
WaveTrace installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 97,488 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

WaveTrace installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.WaveTraceInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace97,488installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
WaveTrace installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

WaveTrace VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #2402 (by installs).WaveTraceVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#2402current rank#2400#2401#2402#2403#2404Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
WaveTrace VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #2402 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

WaveTrace ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 13 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.WaveTraceRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days13ratings11.51212.51313.51414.5Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
WaveTrace ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 13 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (4)
Recent installs observations for WaveTrace
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
97,488+38
97,450+38
97,412+33
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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wavetrace.wavetrace. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.